Appeasement policy has emboldened Taliban: Pak Govt

[Adux]

Appeasement policy has emboldened Taliban: Pak Govt

Sunday, July 01, 2007
12:05 IST

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New York: Nine months after entering into a deal with pro-Taliban tribal leaders in its North West, Pakistan government has said "appeasement policy" had "emboldened" the fundamentalist group and "swift and decisive action" was needed to check the spread of their influence.


Pakistan's Interior Ministry has said its security forces in tribal areas of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) were outgunned and outnumbered and had forfeited authority to the Taliban and their allies, 'The New York Times' reported.


"The ongoing spell of active Taliban resistance has brought about serious repercussions for Pakistan," the newspaper said citing the 15-page document. "There is a general policy of appeasement towards the Taliban, which has further emboldened them," it warned.


The warning came more than nine months after the Pakistan government entered into an agreement with pro-Taliban tribal leaders for maintenance of peace in NWFP, a move many saw as appeasement and retreat by Musharraf in the face of stiff resistance.


The Internal Ministry said Islamic militants and Taliban fighters were rapidly spreading beyond the country's lawless tribal areas and without "swift and decisive action" the growing militancy could engulf the rest of the nation.


The Ministry's report warned that the influence of the extremists was swiftly bleeding the east and deeper into its own country, threatening areas like Peshawar, Nowshera and Kohat, which were considered to be safeguarded by Pakistani government forces.


The document, the report said, was discussed on June four by Pakistan's National Security Council at a meeting chaired by President Pervez Musharraf.
http://content.msn.co.in/News/International/InternationalPTI_010707_1205.htm

 

[Adux]

Good going Pak Govt, hopefully they annihliate all of taliban and other extremist

 

[kidwaibhai]

yeah i think that they are now taking it seriously i think the end of the taliban is near. those dum freaks have bit the hand that fed them.

 

[Adux]

Kidwai,

Any human being who can make a 12 year old boy cut the head of a grown man with a sword and make him lift that lifeless head, and cry allah o akbar, needs to be hunted and killed. I dont think Islam ever authourizes about such henious brianwashing of kids to do inhuman deeds. Pakistan Govt is doing the righ thing

 

[Samudra]

Forget Frontier Provinces and Tribal Areas.

Fundamental Islam - Its inside the very Lal Masjid now.

Can the General summon enough courage to storm it ?

 

[kidwaibhai]

Forget Frontier Provinces and Tribal Areas.

Fundamental Islam - Its inside the very Lal Masjid now.

Can the General summon enough courage to storm it ?

ok you guys need to understand that those crazy freaks are using girls as human sheilds if he storms that mosque then there will be a blood bath all then all the feminists in the world will say the government is sexist and does not care about the life of women. Secondly this is an election year an image of women dead in a mosque doesn't get you as many votes as it use to these days.

 

[Samudra]

It's not something that came to happen overnite or lets say in a fortnight.

 

[kidwaibhai]

i agree with that fully but you gave an example about a specific situation and thus i gave you the reason why the government is acting the way they are.

 

[salman nedian]

I agree with all the above discussion but i think every type of terrorism should be condemned. and the causes of terrorism should also be checked.b/c sometimes we forget the difference b/w the independance struggle and terrorism also by causes of terrorism i also mean that media programmes and films,any -ve statement about any Country,Community,Cast or Religion could enhance terrorism etc so the sources should be blocked and one should not associate terrorism with Islam. I mean attack on anyone's Religion could get him angry so the sources should be blocked i would say.